Sentence examples for like a mainframe from inspiring English sources

When mainframe computers arrived and television was what kids liked, the mind was like a mainframe and television was the engine of our idiocy.

And just like a mainframe or a PC, this mother of all machines needs an operating system, a platform on which all these services can be developed.

Trained as a mathematician, he was responsible for seminal advances in the field and was often called the father of computer time-sharing, a major development of the 1960s that enabled many people and organizations to draw simultaneously from a single computer source, like a mainframe, without having to own one.

9 49: Microsoft System Center, picture looks like a mainframe, part of Microsoft's desire to provide connected business services.

Obviously this technology is a long ways off and the current demonstration hardware looks like a mainframe tape drive or a piece of ENIAC.

If the end goal is to have a seamless programmable environment, the building itself should become the ultimate packaging for the IoT infrastructure, not standalone devices (just like a mainframe is hidden inside a computer or a phone).

No one else was making pop music that sounded like it originated on a mainframe.

In my head, a cyberpsychologist was like a maternal mainframe entity, an electronic pitstop for android jumpstarts.

• Made a mainframe act like a Linux computer cluster.

I don't have a mainframe.

A mainframe on every desk.